Furnishing little delight, spirit, or variety; uninteresting; tedious; cheerless; gloomy; melancholy; depressing; as, a dull story or sermon; a dull occupation or period; hence, cloudy; overcast; as, a dull day.
To render dim or obscure; to sully; to tarnish.
To deprive of liveliness or activity; to render heavy; to make inert; to depress; to weary; to sadden.
Opposite of bright. Muddy, brownish color and appearance in the liquor arising from poor manufacture or poor leaf. Not an encouraging sign.
A coffee is dull if it gives an impression of roundness but at the same time lacks character. Dull comes close to the meaning of flat.
A term used to describe and grade coffee. It is used to describe coffees which lack character.
Lacks brightness and usually denotes poor tea. Can be due to faulty making (manufacture) and firing or a high moisture content.
Lacking in sheen/lifeless. Not a good thing.
become dull or lusterless in appearance; lose shine or brightness; "the varnished table top dulled with time"
lacking in liveliness or animation; "he was so dull at parties"; "a dull political campaign"; "a large dull impassive man"; "dull days with nothing to do"; "how dull and dreary the world is"; "fell back into one of her dull moods"
so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness; "a boring evening with uninteresting people"; "the deadening effect of some routine tasks"; "a dull play"; "his competent but dull performance"; "a ho-hum speaker who couldn't capture their attention"; "what an irksome task the writing of long letters is"- Edmund Burke; "tedious days on the train"; "the tiresome chirping of a cricket"- Mark Twain; "other people's dreams are dreadfully wearisome"
darkened with overcast; "a dark day"; "a dull sky"; "a gray rainy afternoon"; "gray clouds"; "the sky was leaden and thick"
In sound quality: the opposite of 'bright', implying a deficiency of high frequency sounds.
Tea liquor that is not clear and bright. See also 'dark'.
A tea leaf lacking in gloss or sheen.
Liquor not clear and bright, as applied to the infused leaf. Also used to apply to dry leaf which is dull in appearance due to faulty processing (see Processing Tea).
Lacking liveliness and proper acidity; uninteresting.
A term applied to manufactured fibers that have been chemically or physically modified to reduce the brightness of the fiber.
Tea liquor which is not clear or bright.
(Tea - Infused Leaf) Infusion of poor colour, lacking brightness. Can be due to poor manufacture and firing or high moisture content
Flat, lifeless, lacking crispness, and ultimately boring.
not clear, lacking any brightness or briskness.
Lifeless, muffled, veiled. Same as "soft," only more so. The audible effect of HF rolloff setting in at around 5kHz.
Lacking flavour and/or enough acidity. Sometimes wines go through a dull phase in their evolution process, and may emerge as a good or even great wine.
Muddy looking; the opposite of "bright" or "brisk."